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The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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Experience Heart Men
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Art Desire Success
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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Children Dark Spring
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Childhood Children Dream
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.
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Different Firsts People
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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Cities Foundation World
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom

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